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Clean Android Architecture

By : Alexandru Dumbravan
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Clean Android Architecture

By: Alexandru Dumbravan

Overview of this book

As an application’s code base increases, it becomes harder for developers to maintain existing features and introduce new ones. In this clean architecture book, you'll learn to identify when and how this problem emerges and how to structure your code to overcome it. The book starts by explaining clean architecture principles and Android architecture components and then explores the tools, frameworks, and libraries involved. You’ll learn how to structure your application in the data and domain layers, the technologies that go in each layer, and the role that each layer plays in keeping your application clean. You’ll understand how to arrange the code into these two layers and the components involved in assembling them. Finally, you'll cover the presentation layer and the patterns that can be applied to have a decoupled and testable code base. By the end of this architecture book, you'll be able to build an application following clean architecture principles and have the knowledge you need to maintain and test the application easily.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Introduction
6
Part 2 – Domain and Data Layers
10
Part 3 – Presentation Layer

Presenting data with MVVM

In this section, we will analyze the Model-View-ViewModel architecture pattern and how it is implemented for Android applications.

MVVM represents a different approach to the Humble Object pattern, which attempts to extract the logic out of activities and fragments. In MVVM, the View is represented by activities and fragments as it was in MVP, the Model plays the same role, managing the data, and the ViewModel sits between the two by requesting the data from the Model when the View requires it. The relationship between the three is as follows:

Figure 8.3 – MVVM relationship

In Figure 8.3, we see a unidirectional relationship between the three components. The View has a dependency on the ViewModel, and the ViewModel has a dependency on the Model. This allows for more flexibility because multiple Views can use the same ViewModel. For the data to be updated in the View, MVVM requires an implementation of the Observer pattern...